Ecuador has granted asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK.

Wikileaks has issued the following announcement regarding September 11, 2001.

WikiLeaks has accidentally released thousands of dangerous U.S. State Department cables.

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Wikileak's founder has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!

Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed fresh client data to WikiLeaks, just two days before facing a court trial in Zurich for having allegedly breached the country's banking secrecy rules.

Mr. Elmer, a Swiss national, rose to prominence after providing WikiLeaks with confidential data in 2008. He is facing a court trial on Wednesday for also having leaked information to the Swiss press in 2005 and having threatened former employees. He handed fresh client data to WikiLeaks, just two days before facing a court trial in Zurich for having allegedly breached Switzerland's banking secrecy rules.

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On November 29, 2010, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange said in an interview that he intended to “take down” a major American bank and reveal an “ecosystem of corruption” with a cache of data from an executive’s hard drive. Bank of America’s share price fell on the widely held suspicion that the hard drive was theirs.

Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank of America officials, led by the chief risk officer, Bruce R. Thompson, has been overseeing a broad internal investigation — scouring thousands of documents in the event that they become public, reviewing every case where a computer has gone missing and hunting for any sign that its systems might have been compromised.

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The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down.

Visa, MasterCard and PayPal announced in the past few weeks that they would not process any transaction intended for WikiLeaks. Earlier this month, Bank of America decided to join the group, arguing that WikiLeaks may be doing things that are “inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is working on an autobiography. The book deal is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $1.5 million and he's expected to deliver the manuscript in March.

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In an interview with The London Times Julian Assange confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year.

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It seems the prospect of gigabytes of e-mail and other documents from financial institutions can be viewed one of two ways: as a treasure trove for regulators to scrutinize — or as an embarrassment for the U. S. government, which has spent millions of dollars investigating Wall Street in the last two years without a scalp to show for it.

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